Letters from the Head and Heart
Subtitle: Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Contributors: Peter S. Onuf (Preface)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: October 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781882886203
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Political science & theory; United States - Revolutionary War; Letters; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Psychology; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Literary art; Presidents & Heads of State; Biography & Autobiography / Presidents; United States - State & Local - General; 1743-1826; Jefferson, Thomas,; Personality
First sentence: When the thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson composed his most famous public document in 1776, he did not aim to invent a nation on his own terms, but rather to adapt common sentiments and specific judgments that reflected the consensus of the Second Continental Congress, then meeting in Philadelphia.